A process evaluation: Does recruitment for an exercise program through ethnically specific channels and key figures contribute to its reach and receptivity in ethnic minority mothers?

Table 2 Characteristics of interviewed key figures and mothers

	Ghanaian	Antillean	Surinamese
No. of key figures	n = 4	n = 4	n = 6
Represented organizations
Ethnically specific organizations/media	2 churches 2 women’s organizations	1 church 1 organization that used radio	4 women’s organizations: 3 also used radio, 1 also via church and schools
General audience-oriented channels		1 immigrant organization*	1 community project*
Intervention group	2	2	2
Control group	2	1	3
No. of mothers	n = 20	n = 4	n = 8
Intervention group	14	4	3
Comparison group	6	-	5
Participants	13	3	4
Non-participants	7	1	4
Mean age	42 (25-50)	43 (33-53)	36 (25-50)
Migration background
Generation: 1st	20	4	4
Mean age of migration (range)	24 (16-36)	26 (10-47)	12 (4-23)
Mean time since migration (range)	19 (11-25)	18 (6-23)	24 (17-33)
Missing age and time since migration	-	-	1
Dutch language proficiency
Good/native	7	4	8
Poor/average	13	-	-
Ethnic identity
More Dutch	2	1	1
50/50	15	1	7
More Ghanaian/ Antillean/ Surinamese	3	2	-
Religion
Regular church attendance (once/week)	17	3	3
Less-frequent church attendance/ not religious	1	1	3
Missing	2	-	2
Education
Primary school	5	-	-
Junior secondary school	5	2	-
Senior secondary school	5	-	-
Senior secondary vocational education	5	2	6
Higher professional education /university	-	-	2
Employment
Yes	14	2	7
No	6	2	1

* These were the additional general audience-oriented organizations employed to reach more mothers to explain differences in reach and to enable studying research question 2, they are arranged in the Table by ethnicity of the organization leader (key figure).

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